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Kaiser, Lisbeth, author.

Publication Date

2017

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323 KAI

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SD_ILS:470529

Cover image for Our story begins : your favorite authors and illustrators share fun, inspiring, and occasionally ridiculous things they wrote and drew as kids

Our story begins : your favorite authors and illustrators share fun, inspiring, and occasionally ridiculous things they wrote and drew as kids

Weissman, Elissa Brent editor.

Publication Date

2017

Format:

Books

Call Number

810.8 OUR

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SD_ILS:471642

A burst of light : and other essays

Lorde, Audre, author.

Publication Date

2017

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Books

Call Number

814.54 LOR

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SD_ILS:710354

Amiable with big teeth : a novel of the love affair between the communists and the poor black sheep of Harlem

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, author.

Publication Date

2017

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Books

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MCK

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SD_ILS:720376

I am not your Negro : a major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author.

Publication Date

2017

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Books

Call Number

323.1196 BAL

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SD_ILS:693813

Step up to the plate, Maria Singh

Krishnaswami, Uma, 1956- author.

Publication Date

2017

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KRI

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SD_ILS:503362

Water tossing boulders : how a family of Chinese immigrants led the first fight to desegregate schools in the Jim Crow South

Berard, Adrienne, author.

Publication Date

2017

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Books

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344.730798 BER

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SD_ILS:517620

The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America

Rothstein, Richard, author.

Publication Date

2017

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Books

Call Number

305.800973 ROT

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SD_ILS:586194

Difficult women : a memoir of three

Plante, David, author.

Publication Date

2017

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Books

Call Number

813.54 PLA

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SD_ILS:458885

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Partly : new and selected poems, 2001-2015

Armantrout, Rae, 1947- author.

Publication Date

2017

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Call Number

811.6 ARM

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SD_ILS:474279

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New collected poems

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972, author.

Publication Date

2017

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Call Number

811.54 MOO

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SD_ILS:446552

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The black tortoise [literacy]

Tierney, Ronald, author.

Publication Date

2017

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TIE

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SD_ILS:447222

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Bourne, Randolph Silliman, 1886-1918.

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Boyd, Herb, 1938-

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Americas Society, host institution.

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Armantrout, Rae, 1947- author.

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Avery Library, organizer.

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Boyd, Herb, 1938- author.

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Brown, David S. (David Scott), 1966-

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Buchanan, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph), 1938- author.

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Cloutier, Jean-Christophe, editor, writer of introduction.

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Eby, Tanya.

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Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- author.

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Gibney, Bruce, author.

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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, author.

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Glenbow Museum, host institution.

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Glück, Louise, 1943- author.

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Gordon, Linda, author.

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Gushee, David P., 1962- author.

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Hantzis, Steven James, author.

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Harris, Lawren, 1885-1970. Paintings. Selections.

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Jackman, Una, film producer.

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Jackson, Linda Williams, author.

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Jamison, Kay R., author.

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Johns, Barbara, 1942- author.

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Johnson, Guy, 1945- interviewee (expression)

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Jones, Quincy, 1933- interviewee (expression)

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Kaiser, Lisbeth, author.

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Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014, author.

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Kinzer, Stephen, author.

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Kita, Sandy, 1950- writer of introduction.

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Krishnaswami, Uma, 1956- author.

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Kukil, Karen V., editor.

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Kurlantzick, Joshua, 1976- author.

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Ladd, London, illustrator.

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Lorde, Audre, author.

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MacMahon, Bernard, 1970- author.

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Marshall, Megan, author.

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Maupin, Armistead, author.

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Maynard, Joyce, 1953- author.

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McCarter, Jeremy, 1976- author.

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McMichael Canadian Art Collection, issuing body, host institution.

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Mickenberg, Julia L., author.

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Miller, Scott, 1960- author.

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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972, author.

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Morgan, Bill, 1949- editor.

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Mullen, Thomas, author.

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Murdocca, Sal, illustrator.

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution, issuing body.

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Ollmann, Joe, 1966- author, illustrator.

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Osborne, Mary Pope, author.

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PBS Distribution (Firm), film distributor.

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People's Media Group, production company.

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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), publisher.

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Ransome, James, illustrator.

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Recorded Books, Inc.

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Rivera, Thom, narrator.

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Rosenberg, Rosalind, 1946- author.

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Ross, Steven Joseph, author.

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Roth, Philip, author.

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Rothstein, Richard, author.

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Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- writer of foreword.

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Sanger, Erin, screenwriter.

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Saunders, George, 1958- writer of introductory text.

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Shapiro, Dani, author.

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Siegel, Lee, 1957- author.

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Sierra, Judy, author.

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Singleton, John, 1968-2019 interviewee (expression)

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Spencer, Scott, writer of introduction.

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Stanton, Doug, author.

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Steinberg, Peter K., 1974- editor.

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Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981- author.

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Strickland, Shadra, illustrator.

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Szerlip, Barbara, author.

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Taylor, Benjamin, 1952- author.

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Taylor, Charles, 1961- author.

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Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling, author.

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Tyson, Timothy B., author.

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Wald, Elijah, author.

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Waldman, Anne, 1945- foreword.

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Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

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Weissman, Elissa Brent editor.

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Whack, Rita Coburn, 1958- film director, film producer.

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White, Heather Cass, editor.

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Whitney, Catherine, author.

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Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.

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Winfrey, Oprah, interviewee (expression)

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Winters, John J., author.

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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959. Works. Selections.

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Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009, artist.

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Yamazaki, Ema Ryan, film director.

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